Hey, I’m still alive, in case anyone is still reading. Apologies for the gap; there are a few reasons for it:
- I don’t yet feel comfortable blogging about work, and I’m starting to wonder if I ever will. It just seems like inappropriate subject matter, and upon reflection I realize that none of the bloggers I read say much about their work either.
- I have been kinda busy what with the work that I’m not blogging about.
The place where I’m staying (until I decide where I want to live) has no internet connectivity in the rooms. It does have a broken wifi network, which is particularly infuriating since I can connect to it ok; just not the world beyond. To be fair, they told me they didn’t have network access from the rooms when I booked it, but still, once you’ve gone all wifi with a laptop it’s bloody hard to accept that it isn’t FREE and EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME.
Bah, enough with the numbered list already– I want to start a new paragraph but not a new number, because I’m still talking about wifi.
Every city in the world should shell out for free metropolitan coverage, because there is [I imagine] no better way to make a computer toting visitor feel comfortable than to let them have their internet whenever and wherever they want. Especially if that visitor is me, accustomed to 8+ hours a day, suddenly having to go back to the same Starbucks every morning to buy an overpriced and rather ordinary coffee, just so I can briefly connect to their hotspot (which is of course charged by time, so I log on for just a few minutes at a time to transfer emails, then log off again. How tedious!)
PS I love my ipod, especially that it’s light and somehow still working even though I’m constantly yanking it out of my pocket when I catch the headphone cord on things (also yanking the plugs out of my ears for the same reason… very impressive that they still work too).